Current Layout by Wayne Tomsic

Layout Name:

"Cleveland Youngstown Junction"

Layout Status:

active

Track Type:

Layout Space:

11' x 30"'

Layout Style:

U-shaped, two-level

Track Manufacturer:

American Models

Rail Size:

code 148

Min. Turnout Frog:

Min. Radius:

27"

Ruling Grade:

Track Height(s):

46" main; 56" high-line

Mainline Track Length:

323'

Completed:

benchwork: 100%, track: 98%, scenery: 90%

Era:

1952 to 1964

Setting:

Cleveland and Youngstown (urban and industrial districts of Northeast Ohio)

Railroad(s) Modeled:

PL&E, NYC

Control System:

DCC (North Coast Engineering)

Notes:

Wayne and his cousin Greg have been working on this layout since 2010, with a few friends helping during the early construction phase. This is Wayne's sixth layout. Wayne is an avid fan of the NYC, and a long-time NASG member.

The layout is a walk-in style and nicely finished, all cantilevered off of the walls, so there are no legs. The track is a folded double dog bone mainline with a reverse loop. There is also an upper level reverse loop with a wye to a stub passenger terminal. The layout has a stub staging yard, accessed through a wall, in the workshop behind the passenger terminal.

The layout features, three passing sidings, the Boulder Creek Engineering HotShot Trackside Speedometer (company closed in 2023), automatic block detection with operating signals, magnetic uncouplers for Kadee couplers (all equipment has Kadee couplers installed), reverse loops that automatically switch their polarity, and the mainline track is raised above yards and passing sidings just like the prototype.

This was an early drawing of the track plan of the layout.

Wayne (foreground) and his cousin Greg.

This is an early photo of the layout featuring the Overland Models brass, four-track sanding facility produced in 1987. The photo features all American Models locomotives at the facility.

This is the engine facility with an operating transfer table as it stands now.

Zooming out from the engine facility, we see this view. In the foreground is a working lift bridge.

Shown here is the mainline's upper reversing loop. The city below represents Youngstown, OH.

The view from the upper mainline down to the streets below.

A more distant view of the upper mainline and the city streets below.